Subject: Re: Handling 3rd party rc scripts
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/07/2002 14:30:55
[ On Thursday, February 7, 2002 at 13:16:00 (-0500), Shannon wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Handling 3rd party rc scripts
>
> The problem is that people are doing this already. It's not uncommon to
> have two copies of something like Apache, one normal package and one in
> /usr/local, perhaps even several.  

People don't, and probably cannot, do that with pkgsrc though.

(There's a possiblity that one could have multiple PKG_DBDIR's, but the
few experiments I did with this suggested it might not yet work properly.)

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